Phoenix, Az to Why,Az and our sewer issue turned out to be no issue!

On Saturday morning it was time to move on to Why but first we had to dump our tanks.   As you may remember we had a leak but it was uncertain as to which tank was involved.  Eric’s worry was that it was the black tank and that the liquid would have drained out into the pipe leaving the solids behind over the month that we were at home.

Here we are backed up to Fred’s RV site.  There is an extra sewage hook up at the end of his pad and nice guy that he is he said it was no problem for us to use it.  To start Eric hooked up a clear sewage connection that we’d bought the day before so he could see what was happening.  Then a bucket under the outlet in case the pipe was full.  It turned out there wasn’t more than about a gallon and the liquid was clear.  That was really good news because now he doesn’t have to crawl under the rig and replace the black tank valve.  He does have a new bayonet valve that he can attach to the end of the outside connection so we can’t get a leak when we aren’t hooked up to sewer and….lots of spare parts.  It may be that we have a small leak in one of the grey tank connections but…he has parts for that too!   So….tanks dumped and we were on the road. 

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A short day at 143 miles.  We took the 51 to the 101 to the I10 and then straight south on 85.

It was busy even for a Saturday morning.

Heading south on 85 and it’s a straight shot without much traffic. 

South of Gila Bend we stopped to eat and this was our lunch guest.  Eric spied him/or her hoofing it across the open gravel.

It was at least four inches long and had a spike on it’s back end.  It was very intent on digging and seemed oblivious to our presence.

It was moving rocks and digging holes.   In the end it was freaking me out so I got a piece of flat plastic and coaxed it up on top.  I dropped it into some plants a ways from the rig and it promptly started muching away.  I looked it up on the internet and it is a white-lined Sphinx caterpilllar that turns into a Sphinx moth with a wing span of up to six inches and is one of the largest flying insects in the desert.    Yikes….that’s one big moth.  Turns out the horn on it’s tail is not poisenous and it was just looking for soil so it can pupate and turn into….a moth. 

Beautiful sunset in the desert.

A rosy glow.

Here we are parked in the Hickiwan RV park just out of Why.   This time we parked over by the office so we’d be facing south.  Easy for Eric to hook up the satellite dish on the 5th wheel hitch.  Not much has changed in the park since we were last year despite the big plans of the new manager.  It is quiet and cheap at $19 so no complaints other than the fact the internet is out and has been for some time.  Laundry facilities are good and showers are hot ….some of the time.

It was cloudy last night so we got another nice sunset. 

A trip into Ajo (about 10 miles north) to pick up this and that. 

Tomorrow we head for the border and Edgar’s small RV park in Santa Ana.